Canada Guy Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Chris and Battlefront, I noticed you have not been Twitch streaming for a while so we have not yet had any chance of asking you any questions. I imagine that you all are busy with the patch but Steve mentioned about 4-5 months ago that there was a surprise announcement. So my questions are, what is going to be worked on after the CMBS 1.03 patch? Do we have any timetable discussion (even in very broad terms) of what we can expect next and will we know what the surprise is in the near future? I do not think we have seen what may be possible for 2015 or 2016 but we imagine that Bulge is next and a module/vehicle pack for one of the existing base games and perhaps a patch for the existing games but . . .? Jason 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisND Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Black Sea is going to be on the back burner for a bit after this patch, so that we can spread the love to other titles. I don't have any announcements regarding Black Sea for now. Bulge is the big CMx2 effort at the moment. It is currently in early Alpha. CMFI is also due to get some love sooner rather than later. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W1ndy Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 CMFI is also due to get some love sooner rather than later. Happy to hear that. Still a brilliant title. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Black Sea is going to be on the back burner for a bit after this patch, so that we can spread the love to other titles. I don't have any announcements regarding Black Sea for now. Bulge is the big CMx2 effort at the moment. It is currently in early Alpha. CMFI is also due to get some love sooner rather than later. And the other big effort is? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperial Grunt Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 And the other big effort is? SPACE LOBSTERS! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 "Steve mentioned about 4-5 months ago that there was a surprise announcement." I believe that was back at least three 'surprise announcements' ago. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panzersaurkrautwerfer Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 SPACE LOBSTERS! No, MARINE Space lobsters. They're way more hardcore, and fight dragons and stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdogg Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Black Sea is going to be on the back burner for a bit after this patch, so that we can spread the love to other titles. I don't have any announcements regarding Black Sea for now. Bulge is the big CMx2 effort at the moment. It is currently in early Alpha. CMFI is also due to get some love sooner rather than later. CMFI gets some love like it goes to Tunisia ? Anything short of that might not get my interest. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 CMFI is also due to get some love sooner rather than later. Could it be revamped snow graphics as a precursor to and test for the Bulge-title along with a patch? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 CMFI gets some love like it goes to Tunisia ? Anything short of that might not get my interest. FI is very unlikely to be going to Tunisia. Modules get progressed forwards, as far as timeline is concerned. It's due the "promised" Gothic Line module. North Africa will be a different family; it's a drastically different environment and many new items will need generating (most of the Italian armour, for starters). Gothic Line will leverage work done for Bulge, and contribute toward work done on whatever they call the Red Thunder module. All the work done on snowy terrain for Bulge would be irrelevant to the Tunisia campaign but highly relevant for an upgrade of Gustav Line and Russia. BFC have expressed reluctance to return to arid climes (softened from outright refusal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieme(ITA) Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Also the successive CMBS module might take advantage of the new winter environment developed for CMFI/bulge/red Thunder module. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobo Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Please work in true dynamic campaigns somewhere in the next decade. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Please work in true dynamic campaigns somewhere in the next decade. I'd've thought that having some branching based on varied conditions and not limited to binary decisions, possibly even including dialog boxes and or dynamic force assignments (without having to workaround with "decision scenarios") would have been easier to code in than AI script branching, and they've seemed interested in that direction of improvement in the past. It's not beyond hope. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitehot78 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Please work in true dynamic campaigns somewhere in the next decade. +1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdogg Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Please work in true dynamic campaigns somewhere in the next decade. + 1 as well. Also a feature that allows import and export data into the editor / oob to track casualties. This would help support operational campaigns out there using board games or operational wargames. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada Guy Posted April 23, 2015 Author Share Posted April 23, 2015 (edited) I would be happy with a new module for CMFI or CMRT. I also liked the operations in CMx1 but without some other work, that is just not going to happen. Too bad. The teaser that Steve had was not that long ago and was about the time we started talking about the release of CMBS so since we already knew about CM:Bulge it had to be something else. I knew that CMBS would not get much love for a while but I was hoping that CM:Afrika or CM:Korea would be a nice addition since both would not require a complete introduction of all the units. In fact, Afrika could start out as a Öperation Torch kind of thing and go from there. Since I would be happy to have another CMRT module that is not too much to ask is it? Edited April 23, 2015 by Canada Guy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAZ NZ Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 What would be nice is if the Devs could put up a status board of projects/ patches and rough time lines. People wouldnt keep asking. And we would be informed. Just an idea cheers for the updates 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFF Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 What would be nice is if the Devs could put up a status board of projects/ patches and rough time lines.People wouldn't keep asking. Oh, yes they would. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzerpanic Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 (edited) Maybe its to.much to.ask but what i would like to see is european cold war! Personnally at the end of the 80 with everyone with their best weapons. But any setting, (50 to 89) in europe will be awesome. Edited April 25, 2015 by Panzerpanic 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOS:96B2P Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Maybe its to.much to.ask but what i would like to see is european cold war! Personnally at the end of the 80 with everyone with their best weapons. But any setting, (50 to 89) in europe will be awesome. YES!! Fulda Gap 1985! Then with some modding maybe Falklands, Grenada, Panama, Iran/Iraq, ......... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 (edited) MOS:96B2P,I would love Fulda Gap, for it is there that I cut my Modern Warfare gaming teeth with SPI's pioneering games. It was also Fulda Gap which formed a big chunk of my professional concern during my years as a Soviet Threat Analyst. If we're going to play 1985, I want the true armor/antiarmor situation, as I've been at great pains to explain and document, depicted. This includes a US force with only a few XM1s, with rarity which would make a Tiger tank blush. I suspect the NATO apex predator would be the, greatly feared by the Russians, BAOR Chieftain, though NATO players best pray engine reliability not be modeled! There's also an intimate family connection. Brother George was a Platoon Sergeant (Bradley M3 CFVs) for Scouts in the 2/11 ACR "Black Horse." As if that wasn't bad enough, I had a SECRET level Army study in my safe back then which stated units like his conducting the Covering Force Battle were expected to take 50% losses! He was still in the Fulda Gap when the Berlin Wall fell. When Hackett's THIRD WORLD WAR AUGUST 1985 came out, it really rattled my cage. "Black Horse 1 this is Shovel Six. Confirm many.....crossing the Inter German Border. Am engaging. Out." Gave me goosebumps and watering eyes just typing that. He could just as easily have been in that very situation. Edited April 26, 2015 by John Kettler 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOS:96B2P Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 <snip> Hackett's THIRD WORLD WAR AUGUST 1985 "Black Horse 1 this is Shovel Six. Confirm many.....crossing the Inter German Border. Am engaging. Out." <snip> Yes, that was a cool book. One of my favorites from back in the day. Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising was also a good one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAZ NZ Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Hacketts book was very good. Kind of showed how a war would play out. The supply bit i found interesting with both sides depleting ammo very quickly. Logistics was critical. As was ability of Bmps etc to cross water ways. Given info that was discussed prior about soviet tank design at the time being better than thought i think the Nato forces would have been very hard pressed indeed. I a numbers game with limited tactical nukes i think the russians would win in Europe back in 84. But in the end no one wins with radioactive sites all over. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badwolf66 Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Black Sea is going to be on the back burner for a bit after this patch, so that we can spread the love to other titles. I don't have any announcements regarding Black Sea for now. Bulge is the big CMx2 effort at the moment. It is currently in early Alpha. CMFI is also due to get some love sooner rather than later. Don't leave CB:BS in the burner too long or it will be toast! Their are so many armoured vehicles being created/upgraded now like the Polish PL-01, M1A3, T-14/15, Ukrainian T-72UA1 and Challenger 2 Megatron. So theirs always a chance you could add them in one day who knows 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbarbaric Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 (edited) Maybe its to.much to.ask but what i would like to see is european cold war! Personnally at the end of the 80 with everyone with their best weapons. But any setting, (50 to 89) in europe will be awesome. ahh that sounds awesome, and the perfect setting would be YUGOSLAVIA. It is in the middle between Warsaw pact and NATO. it is neither east nor west allied, it has diverse terrain from plains, mountains, hills, sea, dense woods... it was always on the verge of USSR intervention, heavily monitored from the western side... it wasn't overused if at all... and it has fairly strong army itself. just perfect! Edited May 13, 2015 by mbarbaric 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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